Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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per cent. bonds to the Government amount
ing to s., 900.
GLADsToNIAN members are preparing Tor
a determined fight in the Commons over
| the governments proclamation or the
Irish National League.
| SECRETARY LAMAR will go to st. Louis
with the President, but for weighty rea-
sons Secretary Bayard will remain at
Washington.
| THE lock-pouch system Is about to GO
| into effect with Mexico, after which
| twenty-four hours will be saved in the
transmission of mails.
THE missing boat of the lost steamer City
of Montreal has been picked up, and the
thirteen occupants landed all right.
HENRY s. IVES was on the stand in the
reference case before Judge Noah Davis,
at New York, on the 9th, but proved an
uncommunicative witness.
STATE political conventions were held
on the oath: Iowa Republicans at Des
Moines, Maryland Republicans at Balti-
more and Pennsylvania Prohibitionists at
Harrisburg.
DISPATCHES from India state that Ayoub
Khan, with his principal followers, has
escaped and is hurrying toward Herat
with all possible speed. The Afghan off,
Gals are endeavoring to overtake and
capture him, but with small chance of sue
cess.
EMPEROR WILLIAM was we'll enough on
the Gath to take drive. He also witness
ed the annual shooting contests of the Off.
GERS of the First Guards.
IT Is rumored that a powerful syndicate
of Americans capitalists, headed by one of
the Vanderbilts, is negotiating with the
Russian Government with the object of
securing control of the gold mines of the
Ural mountains.
A FATAL epidemic is prevalent in Nc
Dowell County, W. Va.
CAPTAIN JAMES P. MURPHY, one of the
oldest and wealthiest citizens of Kittan-
ing, Pa, was struck by the Buffalo express
on the Allegheny Valley railroad on the
oath and instantly killed. Captain Muir
ply was born in 1876, and resided in
Armstrong county nearly all his life.
DAN TRUITT, a negro, who attempted to
murder his wife at Mount Vernon, Ind, a
| few weeks ago, was captured by Marshal
| Schneider on the oath. Truitt knocked his
wife in the head with a coupling-pin and
| then threw her in the river. She was
rescued by neighbors.
WHILE at work on the steamer Rose
dale at Mount Vernon, Ind, on the oath,
two negro men, Tom Lewis and Austin
Williams, quarreled and Lewis struck
Williams in the mouth with his open hand.
This so enraged Williams that he drew a
razor and literally cut Lewis to pieces, in
f1icting about thirty terrible wounds, which
| will probably prove fatal.
THE Martins Ferry, (O.) Stove Works,
destroyed by fire at three O'Clock on
the morning of the oath. The loss will
probably reach $4,000 on stock and build
ings; insurance $1,000. The stock consist
ed or / 500 cooking and heating stoves, pat
terms and machinery.
REPORTS from sixty Manitoba points
concerning havest, now nearly finished,
are highly satisfactory. The wheat yield
will be from twenty-five to thirty bushels
per acre. with other cereals in proportion.
The amount of wheat for export will ex-
coed 100000 bushels.
A STAY of proceedings has been granted
in Jake Sharp's case.
THE largest come THAT has appeared in
many years was reported as visible from
Indianapolis on the night of the oath in
the northern sky. The outline was some
what dim, but was perfectly plain to the
naked eye. 1t was first noticed about ten
O'Clock.
GOVERNOR BARTLETT of California was
still living on the night of the oath, but
there was no hope of his recovery.
1t is reported from London that John
Ruskin is insane.
INDIANA people are subscribing liber ally
to the Hendricks monument fund.
TURKEY refuses assent to Russia's new
Bulgarian scheme.
1t is denied emphatically that the Presi-
dent has offered reward for triplets at a
New York rural fair.
STARVATION and cannibalism are re-
ported from remote regions of British
America.
A SUGGESTED Cabinet change at Wash
ington is General Villas for the Interior
Department and General A. E. Stevenson
for Postmaster-GeneraL
MR.. GLADSTONE, in the House of Com
mons on the 25th, vigorously opposed the
proclamation of the Irish National League.
A WRECK occurred late on the night of
the oath on the Union Pacific road in Colo
RADIO, by which one human life was lost
and several persons in ured.
ENTHUSIASTIC meetings in the interest
of commercial union with the United
States are being held throughout Canada.
THE directors of the st. Louis, Kansas
City & Colorado railroad met at Fort
Scott, Kas., on the 25th, and formally
transferred the road to the Santa Fe.
THE Secretary of War on the 25th made
a requisition on the Civil Service Commits
sion for 212 names, from which to select
fifty-three for positions left vacant by
promotions.
THE ordering of William O'Brien to
answer in the courts for sedition under
the new Irish Crimes act brings the British
Government face to face with the question
of enforcing coercion in Ireland, and every
body in England is awaiting with intense
interest the result.
Mr.. LAINFIEsTA, the new Minister from
Guatemala, was presented to President
Cleveland by Secretary Bayard on the
25th.
MRS. FANNIE ROBERTS, of New York,
the women who was charged with receiving
$4,000 of the money embezzled from the
Manhattan Bank by Teller Scott, has been
admitted to bail in the sum of SIC, 900 this
afternoon.
A BOARD composed Of three army Of
ficers will assemble at Washington on
August 80 to examine into and report the
disqualifications of applicants for ap-
pointment as superintendent of Nation
al cemetery.
NATIONAL bank repositories now hold
$50, 254, 204 of Government funds. This is
the greatest amount of funds ever held by
the repositories at one time.
GOVERNOR LLOYD of Maryland re-
prieved John Thomas Ross, the negro
who was to have been hanged in Balti-
more on the 25th, for two weeks. Unless
a further postponement of the execution
be made Ross will be hanged September 9.
THE British Government has notified the
Department of State at Washington that
the date for receiving applications for
space at the Melbourne International Elk
hibition has been extended from August 81
to October 81.
Hon. GEORGE v. N. LoTHRoP, United
States Minister to Russia, passed through
Ganexa ON the 2lth. On his WY to the